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Melih Cevdet Anday

1915 - 2002

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Melih Cevdet Anday (13 March 1915 – 28 November 2002) was a Turkish writer whose poetry stands outside the traditional literary movements. He also wrote in many other genres which, over six and a half decades, included eleven collections of poems, eight plays, eight novels, fifteen collections of essays, several of which won major literary awards. He also translated several books from diverse languages into Turkish. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Melih Cevdet Anday is the 5,716th most popular writer (down from 5,549th in 2019), the 1,204th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 1,190th in 2019) and the 142nd most popular Turkish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Melih Cevdet Anday ranks 5,716 out of 7,302. Before him are Jhumpa Lahiri, Lloyd C. Douglas, Niccolò Ammaniti, Alexei Panshin, Memnon of Heraclea, and Jan Lechoń. After him are Paul Mattick, Charles Le Goffic, Alain Decaux, Evgeny Vladimirovich Chetvergov, Vincenzo Consolo, and Erwin Strittmatter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Melih Cevdet Anday ranks 245. Before him are Ramón Piñeiro López, Brian Shawe-Taylor, Richard Evans Schultes, Teoctist Arăpașu, William Hopper, and Lars Ahlin. After him are Joe Fry, Ödön Gróf, Patricia Morison, Signe Hasso, Simo Puupponen, and John Dobson. Among people deceased in 2002, Melih Cevdet Anday ranks 280. Before him are Mary Carew, Vladimir Romashkin, Astrid Henning-Jensen, Katya Paskaleva, Conny Vandenbos, and Ruth Svedberg. After him are Barry Foster, Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, John Buscema, Spike Milligan, Vladimir Vasyutin, and Günther Ortmann.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Melih Cevdet Anday ranks 1,204 out of 1,347. Before him are Mustafa Subhi (1882), Sibel Can (1970), Emine Semiye Önasya (1864), Rober Eryol (1930), Demet Evgar (1980), and Memnon of Heraclea (null). After him are Rıfat Ilgaz (1911), Muhibbe Darga (1921), Leo Tornikios (1100), Müfide İlhan (1911), Suzan Kahramaner (1913), and Hami Mandıralı (1968).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Melih Cevdet Anday ranks 142. Before him are Athenaeus Mechanicus (-200), Leyla Erbil (1931), Zahrad (1924), Mateja Matevski (1929), Emine Semiye Önasya (1864), and Memnon of Heraclea (null). After him are Rıfat Ilgaz (1911), Mehmet Emin Yurdakul (1869), Oktay Rıfat Horozcu (1914), Mehmed Uzun (1953), Can Dündar (1961), and Nedim Gürsel (1951).

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